Programming Pig

Programming Pig This guide is an ideal learning tool and reference for Apache Pig the open source engine for executing parallel data flows on Hadoop With Pig you can batch process data without having to create a fu

Title: Programming Pig

Author: Alan Gates

ISBN: 9781449302641

Page: 469

Format: Paperback

This guide is an ideal learning tool and reference for Apache Pig, the open source engine for executing parallel data flows on Hadoop With Pig, you can batch process data without having to create a full fledged application making it easy for you to experiment with new datasets.Programming Pig introduces new users to Pig, and provides experienced users with comprehensive cThis guide is an ideal learning tool and reference for Apache Pig, the open source engine for executing parallel data flows on Hadoop With Pig, you can batch process data without having to create a full fledged application making it easy for you to experiment with new datasets.Programming Pig introduces new users to Pig, and provides experienced users with comprehensive coverage on key features such as the Pig Latin scripting language, the Grunt shell, and User Defined Functions UDFs for extending Pig If you need to analyze terabytes of data, this book shows you how to do it efficiently with Pig.Delve into Pig s data model, including scalar and complex data typesWrite Pig Latin scripts to sort, group, join, project, and filter your dataUse Grunt to work with the Hadoop Distributed File System HDFS Build complex data processing pipelines with Pig s macros and modularity featuresEmbed Pig Latin in Python for iterative processing and other advanced tasksCreate your own load and store functions to handle data formats and storage mechanismsGet performance tips for running scripts on Hadoop clusters in less time

One thought on “Programming Pig”

A good programming book exposes me to many of the fundamentals of the language. A great programming book has me feeling ready to go do something in that language. This was a good programming book and nothing more.

Another book I used in preparation for my Hadoop talk. I liked the examples, but found some of the configuration descriptions to be a bit lacking.Still recommend the book, since once you get past configuration issues, the examples are helpful.

A nice introduction into Pig, a dataflow scripting language for Hadoop. Since Pig is being actively developed, some information is already outdated, but it gives enough overview about what Pig is about.